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What a report from Germany teaches us about investigating algorithms
Nov 26, 2022Reporting about large-scale finance decisions is difficult for any journalist—but a team of German investigative reporters has crowdsourced a major investigative story revealing flaws in a closely guarded credit scoring algorithm.
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About the Database
The AI Incident Database is dedicated to indexing the collective history of harms or near harms realized in the real world by the deployment of artificial intelligence systems. Like similar databases in aviation and computer security, the AI Incident Database aims to learn from experience so we can prevent or mitigate bad outcomes.
You are invited to submit incident reports, whereupon submissions will be indexed and made discoverable to the world. Artificial intelligence will only be a benefit to people and society if we collectively record and learn from its failings. (Learn More)
AI Incident Roundup – October ‘22Latest Blog Post
By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam
Nov 14, 2022
Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup , a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...
The Database in Print
Read about the database on the PAI Blog, Vice News, Venture Beat, Wired, and arXiv among other outlets.
Incident Report Submission Leaderboards
These are the persons and entities credited with creating and submitted incident reports. More details are available on the leaderboard page.
Wordcounts
These are the most common rooted and stemmed words across all incident reports. More details are available on its data summary page.
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3644new
3192algorithm
2935sai
2740data
2579car
2485technolog
2305polic
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The Responsible AI Collaborative
The AI Incident Database is a project of the Responsible AI Collaborative, an organization chartered to advance the AI Incident Database. The governance of the Collaborative is architected around the participation in its impact programming. For more details, we invite you to read the founding report and learn more on our board and contributors.
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